~Working With Mists and Paint~

Over at Punky Scraps blog they host some really fun challenges and I decided to play a couple of them. This first one was a challenge where you had to use at 3 out of 5 items or techniques. The choices were distressing, flowers, black and white photo, sparkles, and misting. All of these were right up my alley, so I did them all lol. Here is my layout of my daughter, Raine that she had taken by a pro photographer. I didn't take any close ups because this is more about the background as a whole than all the added details.

To achieve this look I started with a basic cream colors sheet of cardstock. I sprayed some gold moonshadow mists to get the golden base. Then I took a screen from Tattered Angels and sprayed it with a dark brown Smooch mist and then flopped it onto my paper to create a stamped look. Then I used a green starburst mist (moonshadow and starburst mists can be found at LindyStampGang.com) and sprayed all over my background. After it dried I machine stitched around the edge then painted gesso around the outside. After the gesso dried I used gold embossing powder all the way around.

This is a pic of my daughter Rylee and her make-up is not photoshopped. This is a make-up trick she found on YouTube and she did it herself. I think she looks like the girl from the movie My Girl. This layout was based on a sketch over at Punky Scraps and it's the 2nd challenge for the month. I don't work with brights very often, but her make-up couldn't have gone on a neutral colored layout.

To achieve this background I took a piece of blue patterned paper and used a dry brush to paint gesso over the majority of the page. (Gesso is a MUST) Then I took some chipboard wings from Maya Road and sat it on my page. I then used some blue starburst mist and went over the wings to create the neat mask. I then sprayed it with spray adhesive an dumped some really fine yellow glitter from Petaloo over the top. You can't see it in the photo, sorry :(

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